Best Natalie Paterson Podcasts (2025)

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153: Setting a Place for Recipes of Displacement & Community with Hawa Hassan 32:47

3M ago32:47

32:47

As season 9 of the podcast draws to a close, it’s feeling like a full circle moment thematically. The conversations began this season around what it means to value labour, specifically whose labour is and isn’t valued to power a global food supply, and an exposé of the cruel treatment of migrant workers coming to the U.S. But the process of migrati…

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152: Documenting the Undocumented through Food with Jill Damatac 30:27

3M ago30:27

30:27

The idea of a pristine kitchen with clean countertops feels distinctively American, or an all-American idealist. However, the concept of the American ideal, or the American dream, desperately needs to be challenged. How better to do that than through food? My guest this week, author and filmmaker Jill Damatac, does just that in her new memoir, Dirt…

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151: What Can Local and Seasonal Food Networks Look Like? with Colin Fontaine 28:53

3M ago28:53

28:53

Perhaps now more than ever, there’s renewed appreciation for the intricacies of our food systems' deep dependence on a global supply chain. However, that also raises challenges around our relationships with producers and understanding of food value. My guest today, Colin Fontaine, is here to discuss how to reorient American concepts of food and cul…

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150: Italian Pasta Nights with an American Accent with Renato Poliafito 31:27

4M ago31:27

31:27

Throughout this season, we’ve been exploring immigrant narratives around food: roles in food systems, labour, and diasporic food stories. Part of this is making sense of the “ish” elements to identities through food, which my guest this week, Renato Poliafito, does beautifully. Renato is a James Beard-nominated restaurateur, pastry chef, cookbook a…

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149: Unbottling the Problems of Bottled Water with Daniel Jaffee 57:41

4M ago57:41

57:41

A plastic bottle of water powerfully represents the state of our current environmental and health priorities. That water can become commodified while being an essential public service means that who gets access to water can be deeply challenged. How is water justice reached when plastic water privatization has become so embedded in our systems? My …

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148: Masala, Maíz, and Movement - Ingredients for Decolonizing Plates with Norma Listman and Saqib Keval 38:16

4M ago38:16

38:16

On the show today are Norma Listman and Saqib Keval, looking at the solutions and communities that can be built when activism and ethical values are at the forefront of food creation. Norma and Saqib are the chefs and restauranteurs behind Masala y Maíz, which TIME Magazine named as one of the top destinations to visit worldwide, and its slightly m…

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147: What Canada Ate - The Role of Cookbooks in Culinary History with Dr. Rebecca Beausaert 34:20

5M ago34:20

34:20

As most historians will tell you, the past can help make sense of a lot of the present, but maybe in unexpected or novel ways—like through cookbooks! We’re living in an intense period (I probably always say this, but it feels particularly challenging right now). With the new Trump presidency, shifts to Canada’s economic stability and food security …

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146: Flavour's Role in Food System Fixes with Franco Fubini 36:39

5M ago36:39

36:39

The idea of industrial food systems is flat, heavy, and feels complex to access. It brings up connotations of very bland, hyper-processed foods made to reach a large number of people at a low cost. There are important consequences to these food systems choices, though some are louder ones than others. My guest today, Franco Fubini, tackles an often…

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145: Exploring the Biodiversity of Climate-Smart Crops with Shreema Mehta 25:39

5M ago25:39

25:39

Industrial food systems tend to use mono-crop and unilinear approaches to supplying the Global North with food. But what happens when we consider more diverse crops? My guest today, Shreema Mehta, will discuss the traditional, climate-smart crops that are overlooked by the industrial food system. She started Climate Cookery selling tamarind hot sau…

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144: The Rich History of Georgian Wines with Sarah May Grunwald 53:55

5M ago53:55

53:55

When it comes to wine, I have a tendency to retreat and panic: I don’t know anything, and I certainly don’t feel like I have the means to access the knowledge. I often wonder if that’s a common experience for people, based on the connotations that come with its consumption. My guest this week, Sarah May Grunwald, is someone I find quite admirable f…

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143: Unpacking the Absent Food Citizen in Policy with Isabela Bonnevera 39:21

6M ago39:21

39:21

This week, we’re exploring the idea of the food citizen, or perhaps more accurately, the absent food citizen, with Isabela Bonnevera. Isabela is a doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB, and engages with participatory methods to explore how immigrants are shaping sustainable food transitions in cities. She also examines how sustainable food policies impac…

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142: What Role Does Food Play in Fiction Writing? with Margaux Vialleron 32:23

8M ago32:23

32:23

One of the most frustrating parts of watching Gossip Girl growing up was witnessing the elaborate breakfast spreads that the families had each morning, only for the main characters to grab a piece of toast and run away with anguish. When we think about fiction, food isn’t always central to how a story is told. But what happens when it is? My guest …

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141: Uncovering Medieval Pictish Foodways through Paleobotany with Dr. Shalen Prado 33:10

9M ago33:10

33:10

Oftentimes, when we think about plant-human relationships, we’re thinking about our contemporary lives and how plants factor into it – be it North American plant-based diets or what we’re growing in our apartments. But our relationship with plants goes back for millennia, and accessing this historical and prehistoric knowledge is a glimpse into wha…

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140: Recovering from Restrictive Online Diet Myths with Dr. Sarah Ballantyne 42:29

9M ago42:29

42:29

Diet culture on the internet is excellent at sensationalizing our food to the point of panic. I’m sure many of you have seen the videos across TikTok and Instagram where someone positions themselves as an expert and demonizes strawberries, bread, or my beloved potatoes. But what happens when we take a more proactive and less restrictive approach to…

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139: What Makes for Good Food Policy? with Chef Joshna Maharaj 48:32

9M ago48:32

48:32

One downside I find when I spend too much time on the internet is that there’s an overwhelming viewpoint that the system is broken and there’s not much we can do to change that – or that food, in general, is disconnected from all other components of our lives. But I think these attitudes forget that a lot of empowerment comes through advocating for…

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138: Fish, Wine, and Letting Go of Ego in Southern France with Steve Hoffman 44:17

9M ago44:17

44:17

In the daily grind of work under capitalism, I’m sure I’m not alone for dreaming of something more to life. Usually, this takes the shape of going somewhere new in the world on vacation or picking up a new language and imagining what life would look like if you lived in that country and spoke that language with ease. For my guest today, this dream …

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137: Transformations through Fermentation and Oracle Decks with Julia Skinner 35:23

10M ago35:23

35:23

As far as public conversations around fermenting, we’ve come a long way as a society in our understanding of what that is in 2024. So with that, deeper explorations into the practice of fermentation and its role in building communities get a lot more interesting. Dr. Julia Skinner is returning to AnthroDish today to discuss the magic and art of fer…

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136: Beer (and Everyone) Still Has a Diversity Problem with Ren Navarro 40:17

10M ago40:17

40:17

If you’ve listened to AnthroDish regularly over the last few years, you’ll know that Ren Navarro is a champion of diversity and inclusion within the beer industry and beyond. When I first interviewed Ren back in 2020, we looked at her Canadian consulting services through B.Diversity, and the diversity problem within craft beer in Ontario. We’ve liv…

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135: Growing Olive Trees in Texan Heat with Dr. Vikram Baliga 36:29

10M ago36:29

36:29

Climate change is a daunting reality for many of us – there’s a lot of anxiety around understanding what’s happening and how it affects our communities and the foods we grow. While there’s no magic bullet, there is a lot of great scientific researchers working hard to share what they know about this. For example – you may not immediately think of T…

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134: The Art of the Plant-Based Table with Chloé Crane-Leroux and Trudy Crane 32:41

10M ago32:41

32:41

Eating is so central to our ways of connecting as people and communities, but how we show up and make space around food is a practice of care and art. My guests today, Trudy Crane and Chloé Crane-Leroux are a mother-daughter duo best known for their individual foods, fashion, and lifestyle content. Montreal natives, these two are bursting with crea…

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133: How to Break Down Diet Culture and Live Nourished with Shana Minei Spence 32:08

11M ago32:08

32:08

Spend too much time on the internet these days and you can walk away with a lingering sense of body shame, dietary uncertainty, and overall not-great-vibes. To me, this means it’s all the more important to reflect on our relationships with food and re-assess how we think about them. My guest today, Shana Spence, is one of the central people that I …

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132: What Makes Food Hearty? with andrea bennett 42:19

11M ago42:19

42:19

Our relationship with food in North America is such a deeply fascinating, contrasting, nuanced and complicated one. There’s so much to consider – both in the sheer population size and geographic scale of our food systems, but also in how we make sense of the foods we do and do not have access to. My guest this week, andrea bennett, tackles these bi…

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131: Season 9 Launch [Solo Episode] 7:32

11M ago7:32

7:32

As we start up season 9 of the podcast, I wanted to share some life and technological updates, as well as what you can expect of this season. Food feels very different from when I started this show in 2018, the "foodie" culture isn't proliferating, which isn't a shock given the challenges of food and living costs in North America. This season we're…

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130: Invisible Labour Behind Chicken Nuggets: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Industry with Alice Driver 30:20

11M ago30:20

30:20

We’ve heard stories about how chicken nuggets are riddled with questionable ingredients, but what gets missed when looking at industrial meat production is those who process a nation’s worth of meat and poultry, the immigrants working at Tyson meatpacking companies throughout Arkansas. My guest today is Alice Driver, who has written a haunting expo…

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129: Third Culture Cooking, TikTok Foods, and Kung Food Cookbook with Jon Kung 34:49

1y ago34:49

34:49

For our last episode this season, we’re exploring what it means to cook from a third culture kitchen. There’s been growing discussions online of what it means to be a third culture kid or a third culture individual. My guest today, Jon Kung, is one of the best people to speak to how third culture experiences can play out through food, cooking, and …

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128: Heydays at the June Motel - Translating a Lakeside Summer Cuisine into a Cookbook with Katie Laliberté 36:05

1y ago36:05

36:05

Here in Ontario, we’re just hitting the warmer spring weather after a grey and cloudy winter, and anyone living up north can attest to the amount of daydreaming we do about our future and past summer plans. During that daydreaming, memory and nostalgia can play a significant role in establishing an ideal summer, with tastes, scents and flavour play…

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#039 - When Should You Break Free from Societal Labels and Dogma? 🌟💫 33:27

1+ y ago33:27

33:27

This episode features Navdeep Pasricha discussing the importance of breaking free from self-imposed limitations to achieve success. Navdeep shares insights on spirituality, intuition, and making God mainstream. He emphasizes the power of love and the need to embrace individual uniqueness to make a positive impact on the world. Join Nat and Navdeep …

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#038 - Why Most People Never Access The Fifth Dimension (And How You Can Today!) 🤯🔑 27:38

1+ y ago27:38

27:38

Explore the concept of the fifth dimension with the Ascension Codes podcast. Learn how to shift into the fifth dimension, activate it, and harness the power of codes within you. Discover how entering the fifth dimension can lead to abundance, love, and alignment with your highest truth. Join the journey into the unseen space of the fifth dimension …

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127: How Local Journalism Explores the Foods of the American South with Hanna Raskin of The Food Section 27:27

1+ y ago27:27

27:27

News media at large is in a challenging position this year: we’ve seen mass layoffs across digital media, local news, TV, print, even podcasts and documentaries. There’s shifts in audiences, loss of journalist jobs, and shaky foundations of social media platforms like Twitter and Substack that make even the strongest bylines at risk of being swallo…

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#037 - How To Build A Cult of Light Leaders 🌟🔥 20:44

1+ y ago20:44

20:44

In this episode of The Ascension Codes Podcast, Natalie Paterson discusses the importance of creating a movement to achieve success in business. Drawing from her recent 5D Codes Australian tour, she shares insights on how to lead like-minded individuals towards wealth and positive impact. Join Natalie as she delves into the concept of unity conscio…

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126: The Ikaria Way: How Mostly Plant-Based Foods Maintain a Greek Island's Longevity with Diane Kochilas 38:17

1+ y ago38:17

38:17

You may be familiar with the Greek island of Ikaria through the popularity of “Blue Zones” and the idea that these regions of the world can provide insights into living longer, healthier lives. Yet as with most trends around diet and health, there is so much unspoken about the nuances of what an Ikarian lifestyle and diet entails, and the cultural …

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#036 - HOW Light Language Transmissions Can Shift Your Reality 🤔💫 19:56

1+ y ago19:56

19:56

In this episode, Natalie Paterson encourages listeners to step into their power and reclaim their purpose on Earth. She emphasizes the importance of having a big mission and getting rich to create waves on the planet. The episode includes an activation and light language transmission to help anchor into a powerful timeline. Natalie's energizing app…

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125: Sesame, Soy, Spice: Using Plant-Based Recipes to Honour Heritage and Healing with Remy Morimoto Park 36:05

1+ y ago36:05

36:05

Thinking about “typical” types of veganism can reveal a lot of fascinating Western stereotypes or biases around what it does and doesn’t entail. And yet so many cultural cuisines from around the world are rooted in plant-based meals that have been passed down through generations to shape contemporary ethnic cuisines. So what happens when someone ad…

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#035 - The Ultimate Book List for Entrepreneurs and Spiritual Seekers 📚🤩 20:13

1+ y ago20:13

20:13

On this episode, Natalie shares how changing mindset and beliefs can manifest reality, highlighting the power of aligning with positive beliefs for success. She recommend a book that delves into spirituality, spirit guides, and the impact of numbers like 11.11. The episode features a list of 10 life-changing books for entrepreneurs and lightworkers…

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124: How Microgreens Weave Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science for Food Futures with Natalie Paterson 47:20

1+ y ago47:20

47:20

One of the pitfalls in sustainability movements is this assumption that we’re all working from an equal playing field, when the reality is that oftentimes we don’t have the home space or the time to grow our own food. What we don’t always ask is whether we can make the comproimses that allow us to meet those desires to grow our own food without the…

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#034 - 6 Game-Changing Reasons Why You Need A Coach 🌟👥 17:26

1+ y ago17:26

17:26

In this episode of The Ascension Codes podcast, Natalie Paterson shares six reasons why having a coach is essential for personal growth and success. She emphasizes the importance of collapsing timelines and shifting realities through coaching, drawing on her experience of helping over 300 individuals transform their lives. Natalie encourages listen…

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123: The Power of Showcasing Immigrant Restaurant Stories with Maggie Leandre of CharisMaggieTV 37:37

1+ y ago37:37

37:37

If you’ve been a regular listener to this podcast, you know that food is central to all of our discussions around identity, culture, belonging, and sense of place. My guest today is someone who excels at bringing these relationships to life through her YouTube channel, and speaks to the layers of personal experience she has had growing up and livin…

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#033 - Overcoming Self-Sabotage (How You Can Ascend!) 🤩💪 27:34

1+ y ago27:34

27:34

On this episode of The Ascension Codes Podcast, host Natalie Paterson delves into the topic of overcoming self-sabotage. She candidly shares her own experiences of making mistakes and teaches valuable lessons on how to combat self-sabotaging behavior. Listeners are encouraged to grab a pen and paper to take notes as Natalie delivers insights on bre…

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122: Celebrating the Diversity of Torontonian Food through The Depanneur Cookbook with Len Senater 43:47

1+ y ago43:47

43:47

When I think of a quintessentially Torontonian food experience, I tend to think of The Depanneur. Founded in 2011, The Depanneur was a tiny old corner store that transformed into a place where interesting food things happen, featuring hundreds of talented cooks and home chefs serving thousands of eclectic meals through unique Drop-In Dinners, cooki…

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#032 - How To Become A SUCCESSFUL Spiritual Coach 🤔💫 38:34

1+ y ago38:34

38:34

In this episode of the Ascension Codes podcast, host Natalie Paterson introduces her special guest, Cody McAuliffe, who is not only her mentor but also a best-selling author and keynote speaker. They discuss Cody's transformative modality called holographics, which has had a profound impact on Natalie's life. Cody's work aims to help entrepreneurs …

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121: Exploring the Relationship between Fish Hacks, Porgy, and Black Maritime Culture with Dr. Jayson M. Porter 32:24

1+ y ago32:24

32:24

Anytime I get to talk about water and seafood on this show feels like a really special week for me, as I have spent most of my life thinking about how we connect with or form relationships around water. My guest, Dr. Jayson M. Porter, this week takes a really nuanced approach to this through a recent article he wrote called Fish Hacks for Distillat…

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#031 - MASTER Light Language To Radiate Your Highest Frequency! 🌟💬 20:05

1+ y ago20:05

20:05

In this episode, Natalie Paterson dives deep into the power of light language, emphasizing its ability to transmit frequencies and elevate one's being. She welcomes entrepreneurs, lightworkers, and starseeds to join her in making an impact and shifting to the fifth dimension. Natalie shares her recent experience at the Light Codes Practitioner Trai…

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120: Making Sense of Misunderstood Vegetables through Humour and Celebration with Becky Selengut 40:01

1+ y ago40:01

40:01

Often when we make our grocery runs, time and money are on our mind – which can quickly lead to following a stringent list of household classics and crowd pleasers. But sometimes, in the corner of your eye, you might catch a new to you vegetable and wonder what the heck it is, or how it works. My guest today, Becky Selengut, is here to provide know…

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#030 - The Role of Spirituality In Music With International DJ Teddy Cream 🎵✨ 33:08

1+ y ago33:08

33:08

In this episode of The Ascension Codes Podcast, our guest, Teddy Cream, shares his wisdom and spirituality with Natalie. Teddy Cream is an international touring DJ, mentor, and club night organizer. He emphasizes the importance of presence and being aware of our thoughts. The episode promises to be powerful and full of knowledge as Teddy Cream insp…

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119: Destigmatizing Harm Reduction, Mental Health, and Drug Use in Alberta with Danielle English 54:08

1+ y ago54:08

54:08

We’ve spoken a bit this season about the drug poisoning crisis and how breweries can work to support their neighbours using substances, but with this affecting so many across Canada, but I wanted to come back to this topic with some more dimensions as well. My guest this week is Danielle English, who’s on to share more about harm reduction strategi…

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#029 - How Becoming a Millionaire Changes Everything 💰😎 20:57

1+ y ago20:57

20:57

In this episode of The Ascension Codes podcast, Natalie Paterson shares her five learnings since becoming a millionaire. She discusses the importance of investing in oneself and being mindful of where money is being spent. Natalie reflects on her journey to success and how her mindset and bank account have evolved along the way. Join Natalie as she…

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118: Pink Gold - Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico with Dr. María L. Cruz Torres 44:20

1+ y ago44:20

44:20

The idea of fish industry tends to feel big, vague, and hyper-masculine – it’s easy to think of tales of fisherman and ideals of masculinity. But as my guest this week shares, there are so many complexities to how gender, fishing, and identities intersect. My guest this week is Dr. María L. Cruz Torres. She is an Associate Professor in the School o…

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#028 - The One COMMON Trait of Millionaires 💪🤑 21:01

1+ y ago21:01

21:01

In this episode of the Ascension Codes podcast, Natalie discusses the importance of being obsessed with your mission. She shares her own experience of being relentless and determined in pursuing her goals, despite others labeling her as "too much." Natalie encourages listeners to embrace their obsessions and go all in, disregarding the opinions of …

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117: Unpacking Anti-Fatness in Health and Nutrition for Body Liberation with Patrilie Hernandez of Embody Lib 40:32

1+ y ago40:32

40:32

Health, nutrition, and food are spaces that can be fraught with harmful and perpetual misconceptions of the body, to the point where many people of the global majority may not always feel safe or heard. My guest this week, Patrilie Hernandez, is someone who works to create more weight-inclusive and nutritionally holistic practices at the forefront …

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#027 - Accounting and Finance Secrets The Matrix Doesn't Want You To Know About 🤑🤩 28:34

1+ y ago28:34

28:34

In this episode of The Ascension Codes podcast, Nat is joined by Abbey Rose, a seven-figure business owner and spiritual accountant. They discuss the biggest mistakes people make in regards to wealth, particularly in blind compliance with outdated financial systems. Abbey encourages listeners to break free from unconscious blueprints and patterns, …

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